NetBSD 9.0 Released, with support for AArch64

Editorial Staff

February 14, NetBSD development team announced the latest major release “NetBSD 9.0”.  It includes support for AArch64 architecture.

NetBSD is a project that develops free UNIX-like OS based on 4.4BSD Lite2, which was developed by University of California Berkeley.  It is unique for its high portability, and it works on various platforms.

NetBSD 9.9 is the latest major release following the version 8 series, released in 2018.  It now supports AArch64 (64-bit Armv8-A) architecture, with enhanced support for Armv7-A.  Also, with the update Intel DRM GPU driver, GPU driver support for Arm has been expanded.

By introducing NVMM hypervisor, it now supports hardware-accelerated virtualization.  Also, it brings forth improved support in using NetBSD as a guest OS, 

To improve the security, it now supports address space layout randomization (kernel ASLR). Using the latest GENERIC_KASLR kernel configuration file, it is implemented with highly advanced Kernel ASLR.  It also supports KASAN (KernelAddressSANitizer) and KUBSAN (Kernel Undefined Behavior Sanitizer).  Now userland sanitizers are available.

ZFS is updated, and NPF (NetBSD Packet Filter) is improved.  There are various improvements added to SATA subsystem, and it introduces common framework for USB Ethernet drivers.

There are many more feature improvements.

The NetBSD Project
https://www.netbsd.org/